milk

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
2. (broadly, uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
3. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
4. (countable, invariable) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
5. (countable, uncountable) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Semen.

Verb

1. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
2. (intransitive, transitive) To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
3. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
4. (transitive) To express a liquid from a creature.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
6. To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
7. (transitive, vulgar) To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

Synonyms

breast

latex

squeeze

mother’s milk

draw milk

dairy

cow’s milk

curd

breast milk

clarified butter

juice

draw milk from

drain

butter

🧈

namely

suckle

exploit

vagina

squeeze out

female breast

rice pudding

milch

sap

udder

creme

fleece

flame

cream

flip

flour

fetch

face cream

lactic

lacteal

extort

come

buttermilk

etc

intercept

dry up

horseshoe

honey

🍯

grind

jelly

jism

jizz

gravy

churn

bucket

🪣

goo

Translations

lait

🥛

leche

🥛

Milch

🥛

latte

🥛

traire

🥛

melk

🥛

leite

🥛

γάλα

ordeñar

🥛

lac

🥛

melken

🥛

süt

🥛

llet

🥛

mungere

🥛

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪlk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: milk

Inherited from Old English: meolc

Cognate with Western Frisian: molke

Cognate with Dutch: melk

Cognate with German: Milch

Cognate with Yiddish: מילך

Cognate with Danish: mælk

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: mjølk

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: mjølk

Cognate with Swedish: mjölk

Cognate with Icelandic: mjólk

Cognate with Faroese: mjólk

Cognate with Albanian: mjel

Cognate with Polish: mleko

Cognate with Russian: молоко́

Cognate with Welsh: blith

Cognate with Tokharian A: malke

Cognate with Lithuanian: malkas

Cognate with Latvian: malks

Cognate with Ancient Greek: μέλκιον

Inherited from Middle English: milken

Inherited from Old English: melcan

Cognate with Dutch: -

Cognate with German: melken

Cognate with Danish: malke

Cognate with Norwegian: mjølke

Cognate with Latin: mulgeō

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἀμέλγω

Cognate with Lithuanian: mélžti

Cognate with Tokharian A: mālk-

In summary

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian molke, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh), Danish mælk, Norwegian Bokmål mjølk, melk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk, Faroese mjólk, Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas and Latvian malks.

Sentences

Should be drinking milk .

It is no use crying over spilt milk .